J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.